well in fact i finished one of them today, after watching the film...
but 1st the other, it's the 3rd book of "in search of lost time" by marcel proust and it's almost exactly the same size as my mopho...
2 of the 3 dimensions are very close...
looking down at the book or the synthesizer they are practically the same...
the mopho is a bit bigger looking at them end on, but a paperback book with more pages would do the trick... i might find a haruki murakami book that fits the bill...
so to the other - watchmen... i've been reading it for a few days - just in the house - and i got within two chapters of the end last this morning, so decided it was a good time to see the film, which i saw this afternoon... finishing the book when i got home...
the book is great... the film is also good, it's a touch flawed here and there for me, but it's good. it fits the book very well, departing in a few details later on but not too much...
once or twice in the action sequences i wasn't entirely convinced, and action in a graphic novel is easier than in films...
rorsharch is great, great as a character and very well played by jackie earle haley, also his moving rorsharch pattern face, alluded to in the book, is done excellently in the film...
the film also does something i like with rorsharch that the book doesn't do... mirroring the scene on mars where there's a reference to the comedian... (carefully not giving anything away)...
last week i was carrying my cards around in the proust book, this on the days when i was wearing trousers with no pockets...
then i lost my oyster card on the day of the gig @ ULU, bought another that came with a plastic wallet, you know the type,
so now my cards are all in the plastic wallet, and what do i do yesterday?
of course, all those eggs in one basket, how could i not lose the wallet...
so anyway, i didn't have a crowd of money on me, no oyster card, no debit card... i had to get home, so i decided to walk from london bridge to where i could get the 29 bus... also i was kind of wistful and it was late in the day, the sun still up...
so i got onto the thames beach just past blackfryers rail bridge (i think) and i walked all the way to waterloo bridge down there, the sky beautiful... windy but lovely...
i reach the southbank and pop in to use their loo and i find a sound sculpture interactive thing called volume, that wasn't as good as it looked like it would be, but probably worth a second look one day...
in time got to the 29 bus and set about finishing this current proust book, at one point a couple got on and sat beside me, insisting on talking, so i had to recourse to the piece of rhodes music i'd recorded to shield me from my neighbour's sound, now shielding me from these inconsiderate fellow travellers...
anyway i reached the end which was lovely, volume 2, it'll be a little while before volume 3 comes round to play... we watched dangerous liaisons last night which - as well as being absolutely delicious - was also ringing several proustian bells for me, at one point keanu reeves passes a note to uma thurman saying "i love you"... just as albertine passes a note to our narrator (the young proust) saying "i like you"...
i was a little confused because i'd seen a korean version of dangerous liaisons quite recently and couldn't work out whether i'd seen the original or not... it is just simply wonderful...
ok and scripts...
this is a little bit techy...
i do certain things every week, or every time i make a cutup film, over and over again, and i'm finding out about ways to automate certain of these tasks... (like changing the velocity envelope in a certain way to deal with my old camera's waywardness)... it turns out that vegas (my video editing software) allows the use of scripts, taking a repetitive action and assigning it to a single button, greatly reducing time spent on these tasks...
exactly what i need, for quite a few different things i do...
but my needs as a video editor are (i think) different from other video editors needs and so i may have to create a script or several scripts for my exact needs...
but creating scripts is really a programming thing, they're programmed in C++ or Jscript...
so this is it, do i plunge into that world of writing my own scripts? am i not so special after all and the scripts i want are out there on the web somewhere? do i carry on in my labour intensive way without scripts?
i've emailed D - who i'm going to see on friday as we're gigging up in leamington spa,
(indiana jones music as i look upon this scripting mess in despair and all of a sudden:
"Do Not Fear non-programming brother, I, D, Programming Brother Will Help You!")
one of those days where i got a lot done, house chores, my own stuff, all before i left the house for work in the afternoon, now i'm home and i can feel a cold type thing settling into me...
i've just had a couple of vitamin tablets and i'll be drinking alot of water tonight and over the next few days, i suspect that i'll go to jai krishna one day soon that often helps...
i finished the end of mr Y and it was great, i've got the 1st book of remembrance of things past waiting for me, not that it's called that now, in search of lost time i think... there's a train ticket in between two of the pages as far as i got last time, it's dated 1998... better luck this time...
i'm moved to read it because we saw onegin the other day, hungover as we were on saturday after a monster friday night with W(floopy)shaman, it was slow and irritating but by the end it had got good... it made me want to read the book it's based on, and then i realised i just wanted what literature can do but film can't... so it's my intention right now to give proust another go...
2 of the 3 dimensions are very close...
the mopho is a bit bigger looking at them end on, but a paperback book with more pages would do the trick... i might find a haruki murakami book that fits the bill...
